What I read in 2019
As befits the author of a book about book lists, here is what I'm already calling my traditional list of all the books I read in 2019 for pleasure (not including the ones which I read/half-read/skimmed for work would be too long and dull). They are listed in the order in which I read them and my favourites are marked with an asterisk.
Ghost
Wall by Sarah Moss
Pushing
the Boundaries by Derek Pringle
The
Evenings by Gerard Reve
* Red
Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
Midwinter
Break by Bernard Maclaverty
* Black
Tudors by Miranda Kauffman
Snow
by Marcus Sedgwick
Conversations
with Friends by Sally Rooney
Breakfast
at Tiffanys by Truman Capote
* Home
Fires by Kamila Shamsie
Green
Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
* How
to Live, a life of Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell
The
Making of The Wind in the Willows by Peter Hunt
The
Jewel in the Crown by Paul Scott
The
Singapore Grip by JG Farrell
Arcadian
Ballads by James Reeves
To
Rise Again At A Decent Hour by Joshua Ferris
A
Ladybird book about Pirates
* White
Horses by Eric Ravilious and Jo Dempsey
Family
Group by Fougasse
The
Green Ship by Quentin Blake
Comet
in Moominland by Tove Jannson
Bookworm
by Lucy Mangan
Rooms
of Their Own by Nino Strachey
The
Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
Train
Songs: Poetry of the Railway edited by Don Paterson and Sean O’Brien
* Flash
for Freedom by George McDonald Fraser
* Old
Baggage by Lissa Evans
Little
House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Earthfasts
by William Mayne
Ravensgill
by William Mayne
Red
Shift by Alan Garner
On
the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder
By
the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder
* The
Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Portrait
of Britain 2
The
Running Hare: The secret life of farmland by John Lewis-Stempel
Those
Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The
Wilder Life by Wendy McLure
The
Wall by John Lanchester
Mudlarking
by Lara Maiklem
In
the Land of Giants by Max Adams
The
Mizzy by Paul Farley
Constant
Readers by Quentin Blake
Diary
of a Somebody by Brian Bilston
Red
Thread by Charlotte Higgins
Before
The Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Sour by Mark Diacono
* The City and the City by China Mieville
Packing My Library by Alberto Manguel
* The Box of Delights by John Masefield (annual re-read)
Short
works
The
Verger and The Facts of Life by Somerset Maugham
What
We Talk About When We Talk About The Tube by John Lanchester
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